Funding goal & project milestones for #d8rules

We have defined the tasks, budgeted the project and laid out a timeline to accomplish a feature-complete Rules 8.x release to be delivered by October 2014, DrupalCon Amsterdam.

1048 projected hours of development and coordination overhead have been calculated by fago, klausi & dasjo. Our companies drunomics and epiqo can’t afford taking the bill for the entire project, but enable us to work on the project based on a community rate of € 45/h net cost.

This means we are looking for a

total funding goal of € 47,160.- (~ $ 65,000.-)

to ship Rules 8.x by 2014.

We need to act now

The maintainers of the Rules module, fago & klausi, are busy working on their day jobs, on Drupal 8 core and maintain the Drupal 7 versions of their other contributed modules. Rules 7.x-2.x was mainly written during fago’s master thesis, a chance that we don’t have at the moment. If we don’t manage to provide funding, the Rules port will be delayed to an unknown future.

The above graphic illustrates the projected completion dates for Rules in Drupal 8. Funding would allow us to finish the project within 2014. Without the funding, a release of Rules 8.x can’t be expected in the near future.

Rules 8.x port without funding

An unknown release date somewhere in or even beyond 2015

An incomplete site building experience for Drupal 8 without the Rules module

Drupal 8 Core Condition & Action APIs won’t get fixed

Contributed modules will have to wait until they can port their integrations

Rules 8.x port funded

A determined schedule to ship a fully featured Rules release by October 2014

Faster uptake of Drupal 8 for all use cases that rely on the Rules module